The fact that our educational and literary institutions do not recognize the corrupted nature of Ginsberg’s and other “artists’” work is evidence of their own corruption.
Tag: literature
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A Literary Guide to Trumpian Populism
The populist and patriotic right will find much to inspire their thinking about the perils and possibilities of freedom in these works of fiction.
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The Place Beyond the Ruins
Things are bound to get much worse in America before and if they get better. That is why we all need our “Two-Hearted River” beyond the ruins.
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Hemingway, McCarthy, and Our ‘Used Up’ Words
People do not want to read words that do not correspond with anything real. They want to feel. Ernest Hemingway and Cormac McCarthy understood and delivered.
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Agatha Christie’s Crime Canon Has Murder Mystery Staying Power
It seems unlikely that there will ever be another Agatha Christie. But it’s not from want of trying.
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Remembering Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston mocked the professional victims and race hustlers of her day and advocated for a positive, noncombative black identity. She was a woman of the right.
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A Not So Radical Documentary
Ironically, a new documentary about Tom Wolfe, “Radical Wolfe,” lacks the radical thrust it laments is missing today and that Wolfe himself had.
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Moral Reckoning in ‘The Masque of the Red Death’
Edgar Allen Poe’s famous short story is a memento mori reminding us that we must one day face our Creator.
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The Ghost of Sherlock Holmes
In Sidney Lanfield’s 1939 production of The Hound of Baskervilles, we have a perfect ghostly reflection for spooky October viewing.
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The Faustian Bargain of Dorian Gray
Albert Lewin’s 1945 film, The Picture of Dorian Gray, is the perfect selection for this season of reflection about our mortality and the virtues we need to cultivate to make life worth living.
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To Be Or Not to Be Western Civilization
Shakespeare and the Idea of Western Civilization, by R.V. Young, is an invaluable defense of Shakespeare against modern anti-Western critics.
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Farewell to Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy is gone, having secured his place in the literary canon. At his best, McCarthy’s often terrifying, but deeply religious, tales are a moving spiritual and aesthetic experience. May he rest in peace.
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Stifling Dissent, One Publisher at a Time
The deplatforming of Arktos Press by an influential American book distributor is an ominous sign of the disappearance of intellectual freedom in the West.